UFC fighters with difficult names to pronounce

[Nurmagomedov]

 

[Hellowhosthat]

I have no sympathy for people who don't watch the regionals and don't have to try and pronounce the names of dudes from Kyrgyzstan.

 

[Nurmagomedov]

I have no sympathy for people who don't watch the regionals and don't have to try and pronounce the names of dudes from Kyrgyzstan.

you try, but you fail.....and some names are less international than others.

 

[loisestrad]

Probably depends on where you're from. I.e. being from Denmark, I'm pronouncing Mark O. Madsen correctly, whereas an american would probably oftentimes pronounce his last name with a hard "d", as in "mad", and not correctly as in "mass".

 

[Willie]

There is nothing difficult to pronounce in those names, once you heard Joanna's name it's not that difficult.

 

[Luthien]

@Nurmagomedov

 

[HuskySamoan]

I have no sympathy for people who don't watch the regionals and don't have to try and pronounce the names of dudes from Kyrgyzstan.

Yeah, Russian names are quite easy to be honest, they are extremely phonetic. They might be long or sound foreign, but they're very easy to pronounce. Nurmagomedov is spelled and pronounced exactly as it sounds and reads. They only tricky thing is sometimes the Zh is a guttural huh sound. Georgian is also very easy to spell and read for the most part, super phonetic for English speakers.

Now Kyrgyzstan gets a little more difficult because they are melting multiple languages together and there's more odd clutters of consonants and added vowels that seem odd. I actually find Polish to be perhaps the hardest with some Hungarian and Czech to be difficult too. Besides that Thai names are a pain sometimes but they also seem more phonetic to me than Czech, Polish and Hungarian. Oleksiejczuk is bullshit.

 

[PEDRO IVO RUSSO MIRANDA]

Shamil Abdurakhimov
Li jingliang (seems like any Xing ling name)
Melsik baghdasaryan
Lee jeong yeong
Basically any muslim, russian or japanese/chineses/Korean name are weird AF

 

[ifindgifsforjackslack]

all the thai fighters that put gyms in their name. not hard to pronounce. but hard to pronounce without smirking

 

[Nurmagomedov]

@Nurmagomedov

NUR - MA - HA - MA - DOV

 

[Dirty Frank]

Joanna's last name made no sense to me for quite a while, and I consider myself quite the well-read lout.

 

[Pepy]

 

[Nurmagomedov]

Shamil Abdurakhimov
Li jingliang (seems like any Xing ling name)
Melsik baghdasaryan
Lee jeong yeong
Basically any muslim, russian or japanese/chineses/Korean name are weird AF

Li jingliang (seems like any Xing ling name)

XING - LING

damn

I always said GIN-GLI-ANG....damn

 

[Karelinator]

tricky thing is sometimes the Zh is a guttural huh sound..

In transcription from Cyrillic, and in most Latin orthographies, "zh" simply denotes some kind of voiced postalveoral fricatives. Nothing guttural about it.

It's the sound similar to the one written by "sh" in English, only that vocal cords vibrate, so it is voiced.

 

[Casio Bioassay]

Yeah, Russian names are quite easy to be honest, they are extremely phonetic. They might be long or sound foreign, but they're very easy to pronounce. Nurmagomedov is spelled and pronounced exactly as it sounds and reads. They only tricky thing is sometimes the Zh is a guttural huh sound. Georgian is also very easy to spell and read for the most part, super phonetic for English speakers.

Now Kyrgyzstan gets a little more difficult because they are melting multiple languages together and there's more odd clutters of consonants and added vowels that seem odd. I actually find Polish to be perhaps the hardest with some Hungarian and Czech to be difficult too. Besides that Thai names are a pain sometimes but they also seem more phonetic to me than Czech, Polish and Hungarian. Oleksiejczuk is bullshit.

It's syllable stress that is the issue.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Yeah, Russian names are quite easy to be honest, they are extremely phonetic. They might be long or sound foreign, but they're very easy to pronounce. Nurmagomedov is spelled and pronounced exactly as it sounds and reads. They only tricky thing is sometimes the Zh is a guttural huh sound. Georgian is also very easy to spell and read for the most part, super phonetic for English speakers.

Now Kyrgyzstan gets a little more difficult because they are melting multiple languages together and there's more odd clutters of consonants and added vowels that seem odd. I actually find Polish to be perhaps the hardest with some Hungarian and Czech to be difficult too. Besides that Thai names are a pain sometimes but they also seem more phonetic to me than Czech, Polish and Hungarian. Oleksiejczuk is bullshit.

Yeah Polish names are hard. The fact that Przybysz is pronounced "Sebic" is mad.

 

[HuskySamoan]

In transcription from Cyrillic, and in most Latin orthographies, "zh" simply denotes some kind of voiced postalveoral fricatives. Nothing guttural about it.

It's the sound similar to the one written by "sh" in English, only that vocal cords vibrate, so it is voiced.

Hmm, It sounds more like the Arabic Huh to me that is guttural for things like Khabib it Khabilov.

 

[Karelinator]

Yeah Polish names are hard. The fact that Przybysz is pronounced "Sebic" is mad.

"Przybysz" is pronounced roughly "Psheebeesh", definitely not "Sebic".

Hmm, It sounds more like the Arabic Huh to me that is guttural for things like Khabib it Khabilov.

I don't know anything about Arabic, and about langauges of Asia, but that's what it is in Russian and other Cyrillic written Slavic languages, and bunch of other languages that borrowed the script from Russians.

How the sound that's not present in one's native language sound to you is usually pretty subjective.

 

[Van Daz]

I have a peach insediment, but I'll give a few a go...

Can't even try to say his name as don't know hieroglyphics, so pass.......

Think this is george street pear

Ma' Kunt

 

[Rhood]

Armin something
The guy whom beat Gamrot